report in The Daily Star online, July 12, 2023
Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud today said the BNP had announced a one-point demand before the 2014 elections too, but that had yielded no results.
“Khaleda Zia in 2013-14 made a one-point demand [saying] that the government should leave, the government must be pulled down. But their movement died at the start,” he said while speaking at AL’s peace rally at the South Gate of Baitul Mukarram mosque this afternoon.
Hasan, also the joint general secretary of AL, said the purpose of BNP’s one-point demand was to throw petrol bombs on the people and cause chaos in the country.
Another AL joint general secretary, Mahbubul Alam Hanif, urged the BNP leaders to participate in the election to test their popularity.
“Take part in the election. It will be free, fair and impartial,” he said.
Hanif said BNP’s aim was to stage a showdown in the presence of the vising European Union delegation.
Common people have no involvement with the BNP and that’s why they rely on foreign conspiracies, he said.
BNP announced their one-point demand — holding the next national election under a non-partisan interim administration — at its rally in the party’s Nayapaltan headquarters today.
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